{"id":131410,"date":"2020-12-29T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/explores-of-new-cultural-territories-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:26:51","slug":"explores-of-new-cultural-territories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/en\/explores-of-new-cultural-territories-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Explores of New Cultural Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan indigenous refugees participate in vocational courses promoted by the Humanitarian Fraternity (FFHI)<\/h3>\n

In the social organization of indigenous peoples, in their original context, there is a particular group that is in charge of the protection of the group, of hunting, and the exploration of new territories \u2013 it is the lineage or clan of the warriors. Especially in the work of exploration, they serve as the spearhead that faces the dangers and opens the way for the whole population to benefit.<\/p>\n

Invoking this ancestral archetype of the warrior, a group of representatives of the Warao tribe, coming from Venezuela and living in Brazil as refugees, offered to pioneer new paths in the context in which they currently live. Far from their territory, immersed in a non-indigenous culture in another country, facing a language different from their own, the courageous pioneers participated in the first training courses offered by the\u00a0Fraternity \u2013 International Humanitarian Federation (FFHI)<\/a>\u00a0to the recipients of the indigenous shelters under their management.<\/p>\n

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Indigenous Warao refugee graduates at the masculine hairdress course offered by SENAC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inspired by article 23 of the Declaration of Human Rights of the UN, which envisions that: \u201cEveryone has the right to work, to a free choice of work, to fair and satisfactory working conditions and protection against unemployment,\u201d the Humanitarian Fraternity (FFHI) has been seeking solutions for a delicate issue, which is the situation of the Venezuelan indigenous populations that immigrated to Brazil and their search for subsistence.<\/p>\n

Imer, a missionary who is collaborating in this work, affirms that the main barrier to be faced in this case is the language, because \u201cthe majority speak Spanish, but as a second language,\u201d since their mother language is of the indigenous ethnicity they belong to. Another factor is that \u201ctheir means of subsistence were informal in Venezuela, which makes access to the Brazilian job market more complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Managing the three indigenous shelters that exist in the State of Roraima, where most of these immigrant populations live, the institution has focused its attention on developing partnerships and promoting opportunities for the indigenous refugees to have the same possibility for entering the job market and of living a dignified life that is offered to the rest of the Venezuelan refugees in Brazil, in the commendable response that is being developed by the sum of the efforts of the government, the UN agencies, and the dozens of humanitarian agents.<\/p>\n